JohnLamp

KathyReid, 2 months ago to random

I just used the words "empathy" and "feelings" in a sentence and now I'm having an identity crisis.

NanoRaptor, 2 months ago to random

NES ain't done 'til Lotus won't run.

JohnLamp, 4 months ago to australia

I quite often get emails from musicians, usually ones I know or ones who are starting off.

So receiving a direct email was hardly a surprise, except that sender was not only an established musician from the USA, but an experienced actor, Abigail Killmeier, with quite a TV and film history, appearing in “Fantasy Football” and “This is Us”.

She releases music under the name, Abigail Fierce and her music is available on all streaming platforms.

Abigail is an extremely talented musician and singer-songwriter.

Abigail writes all of her own music, and plays all of the instruments on her songs, except for drums. She's working on learning the drums.

She plays acoustic and electric guitar, bass, ukulele, and piano, but her most unique talent lies in her poetic, visceral, often poignant, songwriting.

She has over 4 million total streams on Spotify, under her artist name "Abigail Fierce."

#947thePulse #Radio #CommunityRadio #TempoOnThePulse #Geelong #Australia #MusicReview #AbigailFierce

https://soundcloud.com/john-lamp/tempo-review-abigail-fierce-i-just-want-to-feel-ok-again

MikeDunnAuthor, 5 months ago to IWW

Today in Labor History December 24, 1936: On Christmas Eve, drunk cops beat up 150 strikers on the Houston docks, sending 18 to the hospital. They were members of the Maritime Federation of the Gulf Coast. Gilbert Mers, who had dual membership in the Maritime Federation and the IWW, was their leader. Violence against dockers was rampant along the gulf coast in the 1930s. In July 1934, three black longshoremen were shot to death during a strike. In 1935, longshoremen struck along the entire gulf coast, with 14 more workers getting killed. From 1936 to 1938, 28 union members were killed and over 300 injured in strikes. Mers’ autobiography, “Working the Waterfront: The Ups and Downs of a Rebel Longshoreman,” was published in 1988, ten years before his death, at age 90. As a young man, Mers worked the docks in Corpus Christi, but went on to become President of the Corpus Christi Central Labor Council and the President of the Maritime Federation of the Gulf Coast, while remaining a dedicated dual member of the IWW throughout his life. He was part of the effort to establish an industry-wide union along the Gulf Coast states. In his autobiography, he exposes the brutality and corruption of the Texas Rangers in the 1930s-‘40s, and their use as violent, strike-breaking bullies with badges.

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #IWW #GilbertMers #waterfront #longshore #texas #rangers #union #strike #unionbusting #police #policebrutality #maritime #PoliceMurder #racism #books #writer #author #memoir #autobiography @bookstadon

Deglassco, 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to random

Vernon Ferdinand Dahmer's fight for voting rights and against racial terror is emblematic of the grassroots activism that characterized the civil rights movement. And he paid the ultimate price. His story is a powerful narrative of resistance and resilience against the backdrop of one of America's most oppressive periods.

Image: My Vote by Ricardo Levins Morales

Read uninterrupted text, go here:

https://open.substack.com/pub/400years/p/the-very-lengths-to-which-white-supremacy?r=1pv9e3&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Video, go here:

https://youtube.com/@400YearsUNLeashed?si=cYOV6p9QBZ13WN0G

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timrichards, 6 months ago to random

Good morning from Geelong! The new Holiday Inn & Suites here has some elevation, on Ryrie Street. Could probably see the Spirit of Tasmania ferry pass by from here.

#Geelong

JohnLamp, 6 months ago to random

Markets have been “replaced by digital trading platforms which look like, but are not, markets”. The moment you enter amazon.com “you exit capitalism” and enter something that resembles a “feudal fief”: a digital world belonging to one man and his algorithm, which determines what products you will see and what products you won’t see.

https://theconversation.com/is-capitalism-dead-yanis-varoufakis-thinks-it-is-and-he-knows-who-killed-it-213992

jpm, 7 months ago to random

No democracy sausages at Melton South Primary School, and only a single no’er trying to hand out garbage.

It was nice that I only needed to take about 3.1 seconds in the voting booth to write yes, instead of 5 minutes filling out a tablecloth.

lowqualityfacts, 7 months ago to random

I've experienced this.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

kevinctofel, 7 months ago to LiverpoolFC

I still think the #LiverpoolFC lads got the shaft last week due to the VAR issue, but it is what it is. We go again! #YNWA

KathyReid, 7 months ago to random

Today in my-brain-is-tired:

object PatchPath has no such attribute 'facecolour'.

But it does, it's here in the docs.

facecolor.
There's no 'u' because standard spelling is not standard.

Ugh. Moar coffee!

KathyReid, 8 months ago to TwitterMigration

Good morning everyone! Here's my latest #Connections #Introduction #Introductions #TwitterMigration post, where I curate interesting accounts for you to follow from across the #Fediverse :fediverse:

@maryrobinette is a #writer #author, and I am listening to her incredible #LadyAstronaut series at the moment. If you love #SciFi (esp hard scifi) you should read it, too! 🇺🇸

@sayashk is a #ComputerScience #PhD candidate at #Princeton, who is researching failures in #ML (he's also co-running a workshop on open #FoundationModels in about 15 hours, see my previous posts for more info) 🇺🇸

@michcampbell is Dr Micha Campbell and she is a #PalaeoClimate #PostDoc living on #Dharawal country 🇦🇺

@mthv is a #Research #Engineer who works in #GIS at #CNRS 🇫🇷

@astrolori is Lori and she is into #OpenSource, #fashion, #space and #tech #WomenInSTEM 🇨🇦

@pandas_dev is the official account for #pandas, the #Python #DataAnalysis tool 🐍 📊

@jessie is a lover of #languages and helps run #CommonVoice, @mozilla 's open #voice #data set, which now supports over 100 languages. She also teaches #WebDev and loves #hiking. She's awesome you should follow her 🇬🇧

That's all for now, please do share your own lists so we can create deeper connections, and a tightly-connected community here

I'm reminded here of @maryrobinette's short story - "Red Rockets" - "She built something better than fireworks. She built community."

TheSpaceshipper, 8 months ago to random

Firefly turns 21 today!

The Serenity, art by Tim Earls

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mariyadelano, 8 months ago to random

I have had 4 calls today where I had to suppress my need to cough up a lung and I am now so drained

Maybe I shouldn’t have scheduled so many meetings while still sick 😅

melissabeartrix, 8 months ago to random

Just noticed there are a lot of pubs up for sale ... the government buys them and removes the pokies ... from my estimate with the few in the inner west ... 60 to 70 million and 100 to 120 pokies ... just saying ... only issue is it will inflate the other pokie dens

Hugz & xXx

kevinctofel, 8 months ago to random

#LaborDay #DateNight Taking my wife to see her second most loved man: Keith Urban.

melissabeartrix, 9 months ago to random

Does anyone do this ... Or am I the only one that labels their draws ... I will admit I have a label and label machine fetish ... Blushing

If you do, please drop a image below ... It would make me feel a bit better that I am not the only one ... Hugz

Hugz & xXx

melissabeartrix, 9 months ago to random

I think Aus.social has a bit of llllaaagggg this morning ... Pout I know just how you feel server ... hugz

Hugz & xXx

Deglassco, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to history

In 1943, U.S. forces in Britain expected to export racial segregation. When white American Military Police (MPs) insisted a local pub segregate, the owner said he would. When MPs returned next day, they were met with “Blacks Only” signs & British barmaids telling white soldiers to wait their turn when they thiught they would be served before black soldiers. This set the stage for the epic Battle of Bamber Bridge.

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@blackmastodon @BlackMastodon #BlackMastodon #Histodons #History
#WW2 #UK

Deglassco, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to history

Louis Daniel Armstrong's relationship with racism influenced not only his music but also the broader discourse on race in America. The barriers he broke as a Black musician are undeniable. The “Uncle Tom” criticism levied at him by some prominent Black Americans of the day was a reflection of the complex & sometimes contentious relationship between art, politics, & race in the United States.

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#Music